Legal claims defining the scope of protection, as filed with the USPTO.
1. A method comprising: connecting a call between a device of a first party and a device of a second party, wherein the second party is a person authorized to manually mark the call non-preemptable for at least one of public safety purposes or emergency call purposes; responsive to receiving a request to designate the call as a non-preemptable call, marking the call, while the call is in progress, with a non-preemptable call status by sending a signal to a main switching element in a telecommunications system requesting non-preemptable call status for the call, wherein: non-preemptable call status acts to prevent the call from early termination by a high priority third party attempting to gain access to the network resources by establishing another call on the network; and non-preemptable call status acts to prevent reallocation, to the high priority third party, of network resources being utilized by the call; propagating the non-preemptable call status to nodes and switching points in the telecommunications system; and upon termination of the call by one of the first party or the second party, clearing the non-preemptable call status from the nodes and switching points in the telecommunications system.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the call comprises one of a voice call or a data call.
3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising authenticating the second party as authorized to designate non-preemptable status on a call.
4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising displaying the non-preemptable call status at one or more of first party equipment, second party equipment, nodes, or switching equipment.
5. A device comprising: a processor; and memory coupled to the processor, the memory comprising executable instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to effectuate operations comprising: connecting a call between a device of a first party and a device of a second party, wherein the second party is a person authorized to manually mark the call non-preemptable for at least one of public safety purposes or emergency call purposes; responsive to receiving a request to designate the call as a non-preemptable call, marking the call, while the call is in progress, with a non-preemptable call status by sending a signal to a main switching element in a telecommunications system requesting non-preemptable call status for the call, wherein: non-preemptable call status acts to prevent the call from early termination by a high priority third party attempting to gain access to the network resources by establishing another call on the network; and non-preemptable call status acts to prevent reallocation, to the high priority third party, of network resources being utilized by the call; propagating the non-preemptable call status to nodes and switching points in the telecommunications system; and upon termination of the call by one of the first party or the second party, clearing the non-preemptable call status from the nodes and switching points in the telecommunications system.
6. The device of claim 5 , wherein the call comprises one of a voice call or a data call.
7. The device of claim 5 , the operations further comprising authenticating the second party as authorized to designate non-preemptable status on a call.
8. The device of claim 5 , the operations further comprising displaying the non-preemptable call status at one or more of first party equipment, second party equipment, nodes, or switching equipment.
9. The device of claim 5 , the operations further comprising receiving a signal request from the device of the second party establishing non-preemptable call status on the call.
10. A computer-readable storage medium that is not a propagating signal, the computer-readable storage medium comprising executable instructions that when executed by a processor cause the processor to effectuate operation comprising: connecting a call between a device of a first party and a device of a second party, wherein the second party is a person authorized to manually mark the call non-preemptable for at least one of public safety purposes or emergency call purposes; responsive to receiving a request to designate the call as a non-preemptable call, marking the call, while the call is in progress, with a non-preemptable call status by sending a signal to a main switching element in a telecommunications system requesting non-preemptable call status for the call, wherein: non-preemptable call status acts to prevent the call from early termination by a high priority third party attempting to gain access to the network resources by establishing another call on the network; and non-preemptable call status acts to prevent reallocation, to the high priority third party, of network resources being utilized by the call; propagating the non-preemptable call status to nodes and switching points in the telecommunications system; continuing call activity until the call is terminated by either the first party or the second party; and upon termination of the call, clearing the non-preemptable call status from the nodes and switching points in the telecommunications system.
11. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 10 , the operations further comprising receiving a request from an authorized agency that the call be designated as a non-preemptable call.
12. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 11 , the operations further comprising authenticating the received request that the call be designated as a non-preemptable call before establishing the non-preemptable call status.
13. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 10 , wherein the call comprises one of a voice call or a data call.
14. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 10 , the operations further comprising displaying the non-preemptable call status regarding the call on at least one of a display of a the telecommunications server, a display of the device of the first party, or a display of the device of the second party.
15. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 10 , the operations further comprising authenticating the second party as authorized to designate non-preemptable status on a call.
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July 29, 2014
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